Yay - go Room 7. Totara Syndicate have a new initiative - for the tidiest cloak bay. Guess who won the trophy? Yes - Room 7. Go the lil champs!!!!
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Alex holding the trophy!
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| The famous CAUGHT YA box. |
Kia ora - and wow what a week! Ended on a wild windy note! But the children were awesome!
A wonderful start from Alex - Alex Room 7 are just loving having you in our class. How neat to see that you have made some cool friends - and to see Room 7 being so helpful to you. From Michelle helping you make a sock puppet & pic collage for pet day to Mitchell exchanging phone numbers for you to have a play-date. So nice to see this happening!
You may have heard your child talk about a NZ author that they have chosen to do their author study on. We are doing this for our library activity this term...(it will also fit nicely into our reading times..)
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Recording what NZ author the children have chosen to study.
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Michelle reading her entry in Cuddles diary.
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Our inquiry unit -
Litter Free Lunches. Below are photos of the children using a timeline to place various materials (waste) on to show how long they material takes to break down.
Ask your child if they can tell you how many weeks or years it takes the various materials to break down. The children did a timeline on their own & we had a challenge to see who could get the most correct (out of 15 items).
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| A paper bag - how many years to break down? |
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| A leather shoe - how long to break down? |
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| An orange peel, plastic covered juice box - how long to break down? |
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| In order from the less amount of time to break down - starting with a banana peel (so going right to left...) |
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| The timeline continues (right to left...) |
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| Timeline (right to left) |
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| Timeline (right to left) |
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| Timeline (right to left)....ending with a glass bottle! |
Below are some photos of the children
sharing their writing. A big thing I promote to the children about their writing is that, at times they are writing for an audience - this gives the children a purpose for their writing.
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| Michell, Monet, Schalk & Bailey sharing their writing. |
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| Amy, Archie L, Isaac & Ruby M sharing their writing. |
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| Ruby L, Lachie, Oscar & Shkhan sharing their writing. |
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| Mitchell, Sam, Boston, George & Claudia sharing their writing. |
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| Alex, Sepp, Tahirih & Bella sharing their writing. |
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| Grace, Giselle, Caitlin & Cameron sharing their writing. |
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| Archie S, Theo, Koby & Emma sharing their writing. |
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| BUSY writing bees... |
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| Red dictionary in action! |
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Alex - welcome!
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